Critical Transmissions; Feb. 22 Program Looks at Communication During a Pandemic Outbreak.WASHINGTON -- The International Section of the Public Relations Society of America The Public Relations Society of America (PRSA), based in New York City, is the world's largest organization for public relations professionals. The organization has more than 30,000 professional and student members, and is organized into 112 chapters nationwide. (National Capital Chapter) will host a panel discussion on communicating during pandemic outbreaks on Wednesday, February 22, 2006 at the National Press Club. The program, entitled "Critical Transmissions: Managing Communication During a Pandemic Outbreak," will examine how effectively government leaders, the media, and professional spokespeople would handle communication flow if pandemic illnesses such as avian flu, SARS, or a modern strain of the 1918 pandemic flu virus broke out tomorrow around the globe. The panel will consider questions such as how effectively medical information would reach those who need it, whether mass-panic could be avoided, and who, if anyone, would be "in charge" of such communication efforts. The answers to these questions and others will be tackled by a diverse panel of experts. There will be a question-and-answer session following the panel discussion. Speakers will include Dr. Bradley Clark, Chief of Infrastructure Protection, Risk Management Division, National Biosurveillance Integration System for the Department of Homeland Security Noun 1. Department of Homeland Security - the federal department that administers all matters relating to homeland security Homeland Security executive department - a federal department in the executive branch of the government of the United States ; Dr. Stephen Prior, Research Director for the National Security Health Policy Center (NSHPC NSHPC National Study of HIV in Pregnancy and Childhood (UK and Republic of Ireland) ) at the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies; Ms. Maggie Fox, Health and Science Correspondent with Reuters News Service; Dr. Glen Nowak, Director of Media Relations for the Center for Disease Control, and Mr. Daniel Epstein, Information Officer for the Pan American Health Organization The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) is an international public health agency with 100 years of experience in working to improve health and living standards of the countries of the Americas. It serves as the specialized organization for health of the Inter-American System. . The National Press Club is located at 529 14th Street NW, Washington D.C. 20045. The program will include a cash bar reception from 6:00 to 6:30 p.m., and the panel discussion itself will run from 6:30 to 8:00 p.m. The National Press Club is one block from Metro Center. The cost of the event is $35 for PRSA PRSA Public Relations Society of America PRSA Personal Retirement Savings Account PRSA Puerto Rican Student Association PRSA Puerto Rican Studies Association PRSA Park and Recreation Service Area PRSA President of the Royal Scottish Academy members; $40 for non-members, $25 for students and retirees. Working press may attend the event at no charge. Non-registered attendees will pay an additional $5 at the door. You may register online for the event at www.prsa-ncc.org, fax your credit card information to (703) 691-0866, or mail your check to PRSA/NCC, 10366 Democracy Lane, Suite B, Fairfax, VA 22030. The event is sponsored by EG&G Technical Services, Inc., along with PRSA-NCC chapter sponsor support from Business Wire, DS Simon Productions, MDB (Message-Driven Bean) An Enterprise JavaBean (EJB) generated by the Java Messaging Service. See EJB. Communications, PICnet, PR Newswire, News Generation, Chandler Chicco Agency, U.S. Newswire, The George Washington University George Washington University, at Washington, D.C.; coeducational; chartered 1821 as Columbian College (one of the first nonsectarian colleges), opened 1822, became a university in 1873, renamed 1904. , APCO APCO Association of Public Safety Communications Officials APCo Appalachian Power Company (Columbus, OH) APCO Air Pollution Control Officer APCO Alabama Power Company APCO Associated Public Safety Communications Officers, Inc. Worldwide, Boscobel Marketing Communications, BurrellesLuce, EFX Media, Fleishman-Hillard, The SheaHedges Group, and IMRE Communications. Contact committee co-chairs Gary Nordlinger (202/255-2434 or Nordlinger@aol.com) or Kenneth Hess (703/418-3417 or kennethhess@verizon.net) for additional information. |
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